RSS Import and comments

[ievans]

Right now I'm evaluating Serendipity, and am attempting to import the contents of my old blog with the RSS Import function. The entries import with no problems (although it'd be nice if the import script automatically created any categories that don't currently exist).

The entry comments do not import, however. Is this a limitation of RSS? I'm importing from WordPress-Pg (a skunkworks port of WordPress that uses Postgres), so the WordPress import script doesn't work for me.

Before I hand-modify the WordPress database dump file, is there an easier way to import comments to Serendipity?

-ian

[garvinhicking]

Yes, RSS imports do not take comments into account because their structure is too varying and hard to associate with an entry.

However in our current Smarty-Development-Branch (also downloadable via s9y.org) we have a new native WordPress import which also imports users and other things. You might want to try this version; if the import works well, you can even copy your 0.8 (Smarty-Branch) database to your 0.7 installation (omitting the serendipity_config table). If your PostgreSQL spinoff does use the same database layout, you should easily be able to modify our import script to use pgsql instead of mysql, if you know some basic PHP?

If that doesn't work so easily, maybe Evan Nemerson (the creator of the import tool) can give you a hand...

Regards,
Garvin.